- Title: IRAQ: BAGHDAD CAR BOMB KILLS FIVE
- Date: 22nd May 2004
- Summary: (W2) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MAY 22, 2004)(REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF CARS IN FIRE/ POLICEMEN NEARBY 0/09 2. SLV PEOPLE LOOKING AT CARS ON FIRE 0.17 3. VARIOUS OF BLACK SMOKE RISING INTO AIR/ CAR ON FIRE 0.24 4. SLV MAN CLIMBING INTO BACK OF TRUCK CONTAINING INJURED MAN FROM BOMBING 0.33 5. WIDE OF POLICE IN STREET / BLACK SMOKE FROM CAR
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: Baghdad car bomb kills five, wounds senior official.
A car bomb in Baghdad killed at least five people
and wounded a senior official in Iraq's Interior Ministry
on Saturday (May 22, 2004), five days after the assassination of
the head of Iraq's Governing Council in a similar bombing.
Deputy Interior Minister General Abdel Jabar al-Shikli
was in a stable condition in hospital after the car bomb
exploded outside his home in eastern Baghdad shortly before
8 a.m. (0400 GMT), a U.S. officer at the scene told
Reuters.
More than an hour after the blast, Iraqi police were
still picking up body parts and putting them in plastic
bags for burial. Five cars were burnt out, two of them
upside down.
A Reuters correspondent counted five charred corpses.
Four were official security guards and one an unidentified
woman.
A U.S. officer, captain Brian O'Malley said neighbours
reported gunfire just before the explosion, suggesting the
guards may have been trying to fend off a suicide bomber.
More than an hour after the blast, Iraqi police were
still picking up body parts and putting them in plastic
bags for burial. Five cars were burnt out, two of them
upside down.
Thick black smoke could be seen pouring into the air
and half a dozen cars were ablaze after the bomb detonated
just before 8 a.m. (0400 GMT), as residents were leaving
homes in the area to go to work.
One badly wounded and bloodied man, his clothes torn by
the blast, was piled into the back of a pick up truck and
driven away. Iraqi police, firefighters and U.S. troops
were on the scene shortly after the explosion.
Not far from the deputy interior minister's home lies
Iraq's former intelligence headquarters. Some 500 metres
(yards) away is a small U.S. military base, Camp Iron
Horse.
Iraq's Interior Minister, Samir al-Sumaidai, who
arrived at the scene shortly after the blast, condemned the
attack on his deputy's home.
"This is a crime and everyone must condemn this crime.
We should not be silent and need to investigate and find
out who is behind this crime, to bring them to justice and
punish them," said al-Sumaidai.
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